Offended by Da Whitrit (Alasdair MacEachen)
As a fairly long standing Hebridean subscriber to The Shetland Times, I can say that I rarely set eyes on particularly offensive remarks in your
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Ask us first Alistair! (Angela Sutherland)
Scotland can and does already generate more energy than it needs, so to me fracking in Scotland is all about corporate greed.
READ FULL STORYDialect Endangered (Robert Laurenson)
Something needs to be said about the changes which are affecting the way we as Shetlanders speak.
READ FULL STORYEmbracing austerity (Ian Scott)
As the predictable, horrifying consequences of our referendum become apparent – more massive cuts in welfare expenditure, more massive cuts in our education and health
READ FULL STORYThe liberal view (Robert Wishart)
Tavish Scott is “very nervous of a proposal for the state to intervene” in allowing assisted suicide (report in last week’s Shetland Times). Currently the
READ FULL STORYNightmare car trip (Sandy McMillan)
I drove to Sumburgh Airport from Lerwick last Wednesday morning, leaving the house at approximately 6.20am, with a passenger who was to catch the first
READ FULL STORYUnion came before oil (Gordon Harmer)
How many of you have been subjected to the plainly absurd nationalist claim that oil “was just a bonus”? Yeah, me too.
READ FULL STORYSounding Off: Risks of turbine collapse (Allen Fraser)
Those with an interest in windfarms may be interested to hear about the collapse on Friday 2nd January in light winds of an 80 metre
READ FULL STORYOil, energy and fuel poverty (Neil Sutherland)
Much blame has been thrown on the SNP recently regarding the oil price falling and what a disaster it would have been if we had…
READ FULL STORYA tune called ‘Integrity’ (Peter Dodge)
As someone who was campaigning for the Liberal party before Alistair Carmichael was out of wearing hippens I may be forgiven for harbouring a tinge…
READ FULL STORYPoor show by NorthLink (Vic Thomas)
I have been living in Shetland long enough to remember 23 years of lifeline ferry service from P&O and the last 15 years from NorthLink.
READ FULL STORYI know how to save! (Elisabeth Nicolson)
I read the banner headline in The Shetland Times: “Sustainable budget” achieved by Shetland Islands Council.
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Plans for Nigg Bay (Damien Ristori)
Hopefully the next time Serco NorthLink manager Stuart Garrett, or anyone who is a representative from the harbour board is interviewed, can the media try…
READ FULL STORYFacile and fatuous (Alan Skinner)
You have published some interesting figures, but without any indication of how they have been calculated.
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